Saturday, January 6, 2018

Hearts do Heal Around Here (A Poem)

Hearts do heal around here
I see your heart's aching
For care, love and attention
I know it's been tossed and turned
Inside out, used like a rag doll,
Beaten like a defeated pinata,
It's almost still, it's beat a faint slow rhythm like dull footsteps on an asphalt road

Hearts do heal around here
I feel the ache, the wants, the needs
I feel the pain, the hurt, the aggression
A fire deep within burning at its lowest
Watered down with empty promises, grand thoughts
And exotic dreams of loves romanticism.

Hearts do heal around here
Be still now child, here's the needle, the syringe and the drug
Get lost
Not in love's tale sung by cupid as he floats above your window sill,
Not in the pictures you glide through of couples together with their body language screaming goals
Not in the fruit forbidden because you're heart, no longer beating flesh but ice cold stone
Not in the sweet words painted by friends who say a broken heart can only be healed with time.

Hearts do heal around here
Get lost
In yourself, build an empire fit for a king like you, a special palace fit for a queen only
In books, in the words of mentors long gone with wisdom for the future years
In ideas which you will make come through by sheer will
In Him, who made you out of dust and breathed life and love into your beautiful heart
Get lost in you

Hearts do heal around here
If you showed to you a little care


Hearts do Break Around Here (A Poem)


Hearts do break around here
I've seen them littered on the floor
Tired flesh, drained of emotions
Devoid of love, without the flow of blood

Hearts do break around here
Icy and cold, the glass and stoned
Shattered into a millions shards
With their screams never heard, stories untold

Hearts do break around here
The proud, the meek, finding what they seek
Chasing endlessly, till love is found
Held on too tight and dropped like a ball

Hearts do break around here
The guarded and the unguarded
Emotional and emotionless
Wrung out to dry like clothes in the sun

Hearts do break around here
I've kept mine in a hole in fear
Will it break? Will it tear?
Like glass or like paper being ripped to shreds

Hearts do break around here
I'll give an excuse and say mine was broken first

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